Today! The Word On the Street at Queen's Park, on your computer and don't forget the big contest

Celebrate twenty festivals with The Word On The Street this year! Families will find fun on KidStreet, foodies will discover great eats at the Cooks 'n' Books Stage and World Food Market, book lovers can meet dozens and dozens authors and buy the latest fall books while magazine junkies can get lost in Magazine Mews.

Can't make it to the park but still want to be a part of today's festival? Canada’s literary maverick, Margaret Atwood, will be headlining the Bestsellers Stage in Toronto, reading from her highly-anticipated new novel, The Year of the Flood (McClelland & Stewart). Not only will she appear in Toronto, but The Word On The Street is using her revolutionary LongPen technology to broadcast her appearance out to our sister events in Vancouver and Halifax. This afternoon, click here to view live streaming from Atwood's event. To view the event, please click on View Conferences, and then click on Live. You will then be able to see the link to The Word On The Street event. Please click on "Play" in order to view the live event.

Finally, don't miss your chance to win over sixty books being featured at the festival, with a value of over $1500. Nice library! This is the last day for this amazing contest: click here for full details. Good luck!

Book Giveaway! Enter to win one of three copies of Lynn Johnston's newest collection of For Better or for Worse comic strips, Something Old, Something New. At this nostalgic time of year, you'll want to curl up by the fire with the Patterson family and reminisce about days gone by.

To enter, send an email with the subject heading "For Better or for Worse" to contests@openbooktoronto.com, and tell us the name of one of the characters in the comic strip. Contest closes on January 3rd.